Awesome !!! New Heavyweight Tournament set for June 2006

[Nautilus]

New Heavyweight Tournament set for June 2006


By Paul Upham: Plans for a new style heavyweight boxing tournament are well advanced with a major promotion set for June. The one night knockout tournament is being billed as a once a year extravaganza designed to take exciting boxing back to the fans in a slick entertainment package.

The promoters involved are not only intent on featuring the biggest and best names in boxing at heavyweight from around the world, but are also investigating the interest of the world's best light heavyweights and cruiserweights. Prize money for the competitors is anticipated to be well over US $15 million.

A document obtained by SecondsOut claims that the tournament, "will have more action, more intensity, and more champions on one card and on one night than in the history of boxing."

One of the four major world sanctioning bodies has apparently endorsed the concept with competitors boxing matches of 4 x 3 minute rounds in a knockout style format.

Planning for the tournament has been underway for nearly two years. With financial backing now secured, the promoters have been given the green light to begin signing boxers.

SecondsOut will continue to follow this story and bring readers more information as it becomes available.

[ChrististheAnswer2]

This seems like a joke/circus too me. Only 4 rounds? Yeah this isn't professional boxing its a professional wrestling style circus.

Don't buy this crap.

[ChrististheAnswer2]

This is Butterban ****, thats what this is.

[Kid Achilles]

Wow please tell me this is a joke. As bad as Rahman, Valuev, etc are it would really suck to see them fighting each other in four round bouts to the backdrop of cheesy "Thunderbox" special effects and childish commentators.

[Nautilus]

Imagine top 16 hws fighting in a cup system, including
Brewster, Wlad, Toney, Rahman, Ibragimov, Valuev.

These fights can happen in a day or two, which will be very intense and hard on the boxers.

I think it is a great idea. I really hope this is not a joke.

[Kid Achilles]

It's four rounds though. That's just silly. I'm a firm believer that we should return to fifteen rounds so to me a four round fight is just pititful. I would barely take the results seriously.

[the giant one]

Didnt Tony Tubbs win some sort of tourney like this about a decade ago that included a bunch of washed up guys? somehow i could see this tourney turning out the same way with a bunch of has beens and never were type guys. There is too much politics involved to get the very best guys in this

[Mr. David]

Considering the nature of the supposed matches as four round bouts, I seriously doubt that there would be fifteen million dollars available in the prize pool.

The SecondsOut author uses two anonymous citations... "The promoters involved" and "a document obtained," but why would the source want to keep the name of the promoter temporarily a secret if this was true? Having the name out there would create buzz, and there would be absolutely no harm in their names being public.

And considering that there is very little information beyond what is, on the surface, a rumor, this is absolutely not yet newsworthy and hence not suitable for publication until there are facts. At best, the author could include a tidbit, a snippet in a column, something like "Rumblings are that there will be a major heavyweight tournament taking place this summer." But this is much ado about nothing.

[THE REAL NINJA]

didnt they have a show for just this ...you get paid only for how manny hits you land and ko's ...and they even did wrestling promos like one guys girlfriend was cheating on him with his opponent ...

[number6]

Any heavyweight worth watching would never sign up for an event like this.